{"id":1178,"date":"2013-07-24T12:44:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T20:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2013-07-24T12:44:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T20:44:28","slug":"how-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1178","title":{"rendered":"How It Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been informed by those in the know&#8212;or say they\u2019re in the know&#8212;that we live in a multi-dimensional cosmos. \u201cDuh, we all knew that.\u201d \u201cNo,\u201d they say, \u201cMost folks don\u2019t.\u201d \u201cWhat? I replied, Haven\u2019t they been reading my blog?\u201d I guess not. Anyway, there are lots of interpenetrating dimensions. As for us, we\u2019re at a point where we have had our attention drawn to this situation:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/howitworks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"howitworks\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"howitworks\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/howitworks_thumb.jpg\" width=\"505\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notice the \u201cmessing around\u201d variable, and the fact that it is situated between mind and mystery is no coincidence. This is really mystical influence, but that\u2019s too heavy a term. It also doesn\u2019t recognize the dynamism of conversation between levels of consciousness. More complex phenomena cannot help but be distorted in the simplification, or talking-down, or editing process. Thus, an angel might realize she needs to edit down and simplify her awareness so that ordinary humans might grasp even a part, as is illustrated by this cartoon by Saul Steinberg:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/angelicmessage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"angelicmessage\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"angelicmessage\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/angelicmessage_thumb.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I want to confess that one of my role involvements is trying to grasp just a little more than the over-simplified, because I think humanity is ready for it. Is this akin to Prometheus obtaining fire for humanity\u2019s use? Maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been informed by those in the know&#8212;or say they\u2019re in the know&#8212;that we live in a multi-dimensional cosmos. \u201cDuh, we all knew that.\u201d \u201cNo,\u201d they say, \u201cMost folks don\u2019t.\u201d \u201cWhat? I replied, Haven\u2019t they been reading my blog?\u201d I guess not. Anyway, there are lots of interpenetrating dimensions. As for us, we\u2019re at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,35,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foolin","category-mind-spectrums","category-spirituality-and-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}